[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/7] [RESEND] Fix some deadlocks in quota code and implement lockdep for cluster locks

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Thu Jun 4 03:09:36 PDT 2009


On Wed 03-06-09 19:26:46, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:23:58PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >   I'm resending this patch series. It's rediffed against linux-next branch of
> > Joel's git tree. The first four patches are obvious fixes of deadlocks in quota
> > code and should go in as soon as possible. The other three patches implement
> > lockdep support for OCFS2 cluster locks. So you can have a look whether the
> > code make sence to you and possibly merge them. They should be NOP when lockdep
> > is disabled and help a lot when debugging various locking problems (with these
> > patches I found the problems fixed in the beginning of the series).
> >   BTW: Currently lockdep complains about some configfs issue and turns itself
> > off so that's why I didn't get to finding more deadlocks ;)
> 
> 	The fixes are now in the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git.  They
> also live on the quota-fixes topic branch.  The lockdep changes still
> need some marinating.
  Thanks. With lockdep patch, there's this 'ip' parameter thing causing
ifdefs but after we agree how to resolve this, it can go into linux-next
branch, right?

									Honza
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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR



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